Citation chasing

Overview of techniques and description of tools for mapping literature. This is a 2022 post by Uttkarsha Bhosale.

Build a network of academic papers and we'll analyze the network to help you discover the most relevant literature. Select two papers and we will show you how the literature connects them together.

From a single paper, Litmaps generates a map of the most relevant articles that relate to your seed paper. The most recent articles appear on the right, the most cited articles appear at the top and the lines show the citations in-between.

Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses a variety of data sources to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these and presents a range of citation metrics, including the number of papers, total citations and the h-index.

Open Knowledge Maps is the world's largest visual search engine for scientific knowledge. We dramatically increase the visibility of research findings for science and society alike.